Vehicle-wheel.



Pa-tented June 8, 1909.

anoahtoz Wit" use:

UNITED snares PATENT OFFICE.

LOUTS A. HILL, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF-COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN 'RESILIENT WHEEL COMPANY, A-CORPORATION OF DELAWARE. V

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

To all whom it may-concern: I Be it knownthat I, LOUISA. HILL, a citizen of-the'United States, residirigat Wash-' ington, in the District of Columbia, have inlowing is a specification. This invention relates to improvements'm vehicle wheels. The ob ect of the present invention is to improve the construction of vehicle wheels,

more especially that shown and described in reissued Letters 'Patent Number 12,647 granted to me the seventh day of May, 1907, and to lighten the construction and increase the strength, durability and quickness of recovery of the same.

'The Invention also has for its object to arrange the resilient braces or members of the cushioning means in the most advantageous positions for absorbing the varying strains of driving, braking and turning.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the-accompanying drawings,- Figure 1, is a side elevation of a portion of a wheel illustrating the preferred embodiment oflthe invention. view. Fig. 3, is a detail view of'the attaching plate, illustrating the arrangement of the higs. Fig. 4, is a detail perspective view of an attaching plate, illustrating a modification of the invention.

Like numerals of reference designate cor responding partsin all of the figures of the drawings.

The vehicle wheel is equipped with an innerflrvheel member 1, of any preferred con- 'struction, provided with a rim 2, designated hereinafter as an inner rim and spaced from an outer rim 3, whichcarries-a tlre 4. The outer rim in practice is designed to be of the clencher type, and the tire preferably a solid elastic tire, but any desired construction of outer'rim and tire may be employed,

as their particular construction does not con stitute any portion of the present invention: the oiiter by groupsof resilient braces or members, consisting of coiled springs and located alternately at opposite sides of the wheel, the groups at oneside of the wheel be- 5 ing arranged at the intervals. between the v Specification of Letters Patent. Appncation filed April 3, 1908.

Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional driving, braking and turning.

The inner wheel member is suspended within Patented June 8, 1909.

Serial No. 424,918.

groiips at the other side of the Wheel. The

springs arestretched to place them undertension, and each groupie composed of an] intermediate member 5, and side members 6 and 17 set at an angle to one another and di- '60 I verging from the outer rim connected to thesame and; to the inner rim by outer and inner attaching plates 8, and 9. This aggroupment of the-springs is specified for convenience of description, for the; c'ontiguc5 ops members of the adjacent groups diverg- 'ing 'from theinner rim. The side members 6, and 7, are oppositely inclined, and are arrangedfto absorb respectively the driving torque and the brake stress, while the inter:

mediate member 5, is inclined transversely of the wheel to absorb the side strains. The intermedlatemembers 5, at opposite sidesof the wheel are-inclined in the 0p osite direction and extend-across the whee ,each intermediate member being attached to one side of the outer rim and to the o'pposite side of the inner rim. Theside members of the group form zig hag connections and have their innerand outer terminals attached to the inner and outer rims at the-same side of the wheel. The oppositely inclined 1 side members 6, and 7, and the transversely inclined intermediate member 5,. of the groups at opposite sides of the wheel form four disk. 5 tinct sets or series of springs and constitute the cushioning means for yieldably sus pending the inner wheel member 'l,..within. the outer rim and to absorb the strains ofr 'The outer and 'nner attaching plates 8, and 9, which are secured to the outer and I inner rims by bolts 10 and 11, are provided at :their inner faces with spaced lugs 12 to engage therims 2, and 3, and they are 5' equipped at their outer faces with intermediate and side hooks 12,- which are linked into terminal loops 1'3, 14, and 15,-of the intermediate and side membersof the groups of springs. The attaching plates at opposite 106 sides of each of the rims 2 and 3 are alternately. arranged, the series atone side being located op osite the intervals betweenthe plates atfthe opposite side. .Also the inne'r and outer lates at the same side of the 'wheel are a ternately arranged with respect to one another. [T he lugs prevent the attaching plates from turning on the bolts 10 and 11, which are provided with nuts 16, and washers Hand 18. The washers 17 are 110 into osed between the nuts and the rims, and t e washers 18, which are rovided with recesses 19, to receive the hea s of the bolts, are fitted against the attaching plates. The recesses 18 form annular flanges 20,, located at the'peri heries of the washers and arranged to c ose the mouths of the hooks to retain the loops of the springs in engagement with the same. The hooks arearran ed in a curved series concentric with the was or and of the annular flange 20. Instead of emloying hooks for .engagin I oops of the springs the attac ingplates may be equipped with'spaced, intermediate, and side ears 21 and 22 asshown in Fig.- '4, of the drawings. The ears 21 and-22 are arranged in pairs and the loops of the springs are secured between the ears by IIVBlJS OI pins. The inner ears of the side pairs are formed bypldrtions of the attaching plate.

.by the term resilient braces or mem ers t may be understood that any form of resili ent brace or member may be used for connecting the inner and outer rims.

Havin thus fully described my invention,

L What I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

' 1. A vehicle wheel including spaced inner and outer rims, and annular series of groups of resilient braces or members located alternately at opposite sides'of the wheel and connecting the rims, the braces or members of each group diverging inwardly from the outer rim and one of the members or braces of each group being extended across the wheel to the opposite side thereof,

2. A vehicle wheel including spaced inner and outer rims, annular series of resilient side braces ormembers arranged at an angle to one another and located alternately at o posite sides of the wheel and attached to t e rims at the sides thereof to form zig zag side connections, and transversely disposed resilient braces or members extending across the. wheel from the inner ends of one pair. of side braces-or members to the outer ends of the opposite pair.

3. A vehicle wheel including spaced inner and outer. rims, inner and outer attachin plates located at the sides of the rims. an provided with spaced lugs engaging the the terrninal:

' same, "fastening devices piercing the plates and the rims, and resilient braces or members connecting the inner and outer plates.

4. A vehicle wheel including inner and outer rims, innerand outer attaching plates having hooks, resilient braces or members connecting the inner and outer plates and enga ed by the hooks thereof, Washers closing t e mouths of the hooks and fastening devices piercing the washers and the plates. the bills of the-hooks extend over the edge -6. Avehicle wheel having spaced inner and outer rims, resilient connecting means v for the rims arranged at each side of the ile'I have shown 0 y coiled springs,

wheel and extending entirely around the latter, said means being disposed in a zig-zag manner between. the two I riins, and the means on one side of the wheel being arranged the reverse of that on the other side, and resilient connecting means extending transversely of the wheel and connected at opposite ends to the respective rims, each transversely-extending means being disposed reverselyto the adjacent one.

7. A vehicle wheel having spaced inner and outer rims, resilient connecting means for the rims arranged at each side of the wheel and extending entirely around the latter, said means at each side of the wheel comprisin pairs of coiled springs arranged at an ange to each other and alternately connected tothe inner and outer rims forming a zig-zag course about the wheel between the rims, the means on the res ective sides being disposed reversely to eacliother, and coiled springs extending transversely of the Wheel and connected at their opposite ends to the respective rims, each spring being disposed reversely to the one next thereto.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS A. HILL.

' Witnesses:

Fonn E. YOUNG, ERNEST F. RILEY. 

